Building Bridges: Your Community & Labor Report
National Edition
Produced by Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash
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Protesting The Killing Floor At Smithfield Hams
Civil rights, faith, immigrant rights and labor union activists gathered to protest
Smithfield’s widespread abuse of workers & its failure to recognize their right to
join a union. Poverty wages, brutal conditions, crippling injuries, intimidating,
illegally firing and threatening its workers with deportation - - the 5,500 workers
in Tar Heel, N.C. face this every day at the world's largest hog processing plant.
A century after Upton Sinclair's novel “The Jungle” shocked the world about the
atrocious conditions endured by workers in meatpacking plants; time stands
still at Smithfield.
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